It's that wonderful time of year again - people everywhere are stringing lights, lighting menorahs, decorating Christmas trees, and buying lots and lots of stuff (thanks to some pretty slick advertising). Ain't it grand???
As I decorate the bomb shelter I find myself thinking about the true meaning of this holiday season. It helps me to listen to my special collection of holiday music. My favorite collection is (no, it's not Burl Ives' Christmas Album) Dr. Demento's "Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time."
Dr. Demento has put together the greatest sons of the season - including I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus.
But my all-time favorite song of the nuclear Holiday season is Christmas At Ground Zero, written and performed by one of the great composers of our (nuclear) age, "Weird Al" Yankovic.
It's a song that conjures up images of glowing reindeer and walks in radioactive snow.
This music video version, to the best of my very limited understanding, is the totally official Yankovic-produced version of this great song that is destined to become your family's favorite Holiday tune.
Move over Winter Wonderland - "it's time to duck and cover with your yuletide lover underneath the mistletoe..."
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